Evidence implicates Zimbabwe's army in murder and rape during repression of protests.

There is no cause that so easily stirs up big protests like increasing the price of fossil fuels. Yet this is one of the special issues on which yielding to the protesters implies (even worse) disaster in a few decades.

Perhaps if the price increase is entirely distributed to poor people in other ways, they might accept it.

Egypt is still blocking investigation of the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, in which members of the state repression agencies have been named as subjects to investigate.

It would be wrong to convict a person based on limited evidence such as that, but it is sufficient reason to conclude that the Egyptian state is responsible.

Unconscious racism amounts to frequent harassment across many areas of life.

London thugs target blacks twice as often as whites, for searching them on the street without cause.

Facebook plans to integrate its three mouths — the services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — so all the data they swallow goes to the same stomach.

Italy's right-wing minister Salvini faces charges of kidnapping for keeping refugees rescued at sea effectively imprisoned in the ship that brought them into port.